Life Skills Curriculum
- A curriculum with an approach to teaching critical social skills to early learners
- Skills have been proven to prevent problem behavior and often replace problem behavior with a functional skill
- Skills are divided into 4 groups which make up a total of 13 skills, all in a specific sequential order
Unit 1 Skills: Instruction Following
1. Responding appropriately to name
2. Complying with a simple direction
3. Complying with a multi-step direction
4. Requesting assistance
5. Requesting attention
Unit 2 Skills: Functional Communication
6. Framed requesting to adults (when an item is not available)
7. Framed requesting to peers (when item is being used)
Unit 3 Skills: Tolerance for Delay
8. Tolerating delay imposed by adults
9. Tolerating delay imposed by a peer
Unit 4 Skills: Friendship Skills
10. Saying "Thank You"
11. Acknowledging/complimenting others
12. Offering/sharing
13. Comforting others in distress
How Skills are Taught
-Instruction
-Modeling
-Practice
-Feedback
Social Thinking Curriculum - The Incredible Flexible You
-Thinking Thoughts And Feeling Feelings
-Thinking With Your Eyes
-The Group Plan
-Body In The Group
-Whole Body Listening
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